Originally Posted by
Speed of Sound
They’re not.
Most of those recently recruited ‘technicians’ are there to do the work necessary to return the grounded aircraft to a serviceable condition to fly again and are not involved with any attempts to find a fix.
So the article is misleading :
" deploying 1,500 engineers — as many as it takes to design a new small jet — "
Deploying 1500 temporary technicians is no big deal in any industry, and has nothing to do with an engineer team designing an airplane.